You can not take a spl case and make it generalised. Every country has a soul. In India, it is spirituality. The best of breed in India always go for that and the materialistic world comes secondary. True...outwardly, it is not attractive *relative* to US. India believes that "society has to go after truth & not the other way". And the truths discovered by modern physics, such as "relativeness of time" / "boot strap theory of quantum mechanics" etc., were discovered 5000 years back in India and are the basis of Indian culture. So they never give first preference to materialistic things. Infact realising them are part of realising the truth. As an Indian, I wish my country always to give first preference to truth and next to materialistic needs - even if this means, taking little more time to develop outwardly.
(Sorry for posting these comments here but could not control myself after reading the comments.)
Wow!! This is great. Though the whole issue is NOT about open source Vs proprietary, still many will perceive it so. Even from that context also, what a nice revealing fact it is!! - open source has always got some nice powerful friends backing it. Ultimately whole episode turned to do good. I feel now, the gates are openend, with Novell's backing, for the possibility of getting the real unix code and patents themselves for open source, if required. Unofficially it is equivalent and already it is.
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You can not take a spl case and make it generalised. Every country has a soul. In India, it is spirituality. The best of breed in India always go for that and the materialistic world comes secondary. True...outwardly, it is not attractive *relative* to US. India believes that "society has to go after truth & not the other way". And the truths discovered by modern physics, such as "relativeness of time" / "boot strap theory of quantum mechanics" etc., were discovered 5000 years back in India and are the basis of Indian culture. So they never give first preference to materialistic things. Infact realising them are part of realising the truth. As an Indian, I wish my country always to give first preference to truth and next to materialistic needs - even if this means, taking little more time to develop outwardly. (Sorry for posting these comments here but could not control myself after reading the comments.)
Wow!! This is great. Though the whole issue is NOT about open source Vs proprietary, still many will perceive it so. Even from that context also, what a nice revealing fact it is!! - open source has always got some nice powerful friends backing it. Ultimately whole episode turned to do good. I feel now, the gates are openend, with Novell's backing, for the possibility of getting the real unix code and patents themselves for open source, if required. Unofficially it is equivalent and already it is.